‘Fly Girls’: ‘Contrived Connivances’
Travel Blog • Eva Holland • 03.29.10 | 1:28 PM ET
Slate television critic Troy Patterson takes down the new reality show:
[Y]ou will need to stow your aesthetic judgment in the overhead compartment to enjoy “Fly Girls,” which parades the usual nonsense ... The Fly Girls’ trumped-up arguments are processed beefs. Their romantic travails are as inconsequential as the shabby guys they’re trysting with. The show fails to exploit the comedy-of-errors potential inherent to flight-attendant narratives, the coming-and-going-and-getting-laid-over farcical possibilities explored by classic texts from “Boeing Boeing” to “Three’s a Crowd.”
The Los Angeles Times’ Robert Lloyd is similarly unimpressed. Variety piles on.